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codified into groups of laws, established the basis of laws established in future cultures. While punishments were severe, they re...

early restrictions and their application to Mosaic law, as well as an understanding of the role of Moses, are elements important i...

chapter, and discusses what God has done for the people of Israel. In this Sermon, Moses relates the actions that were taken that...

God Abraham received was detailed in Genesis as follows: "Go forth from your native land / And from your fathers house / And I wil...

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

special messages to the people. Jonah, who refused to take the message the Lord gave him into Nineveh, suffered the consequences o...

were captive in Babylon and, therefore, exposed to this culture. The traditional Jewish and Christian viewpoint has been that M...

repair the ravages of human sinfulness" (OBrien, 1999, p. 16). However, the allure of worldliness proved too much for the Israeli...

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Both from biblical and theological perspectives, scholars have increasingly recognized the distortions that have crept into the Ch...

Will Salvation Take You? 2004). The Bible specifically states that it is salvation that is the key to opening the kingdom of hea...

first part of the reign of Josiah (640-609 BCE) (Exegetical helps, 2004). The words of Zephaniah reflect the faithlessness of the...

of Joshua (chs. 23-24) (Strange, 2002). A really interesting element in chapter 24 is its setting, as the entirety of its story ta...

phrases use in the Gospels is that is used exclusively by Christ and is never employed by his disciples or others, nor by early Ch...

a religious leader to one ruled by a king, that is, a political leader. Sauls downfall as a ruler is considered to be tragic in th...

and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...

also referred as "the law," due to the fact that they contain "the laws and instruction" that were handed down by God to Moses and...

out by Nehemiah in two sets, initially and then, upon his return (Eastons Bible Dictionary, 1897). The Book of Nehemiah informs t...

to bring a great flood that would cover the earth but Noah was a righteous man and God decided to save humanity through Noah and H...

no historical value to the Book of Esther and that it is a "work of the imagination, written for the purpose of popularizing the f...

King Sauls successor, as God has rejected Saul due to his disobedience.ix When Samuel comes to the house of Jesse in Bethlehem to ...

so disfigured that three of his friends do not recognize him when they come to visit him. The three friends are Eliphaz, Bildad...

this festival secretly because He knew people were debating who He was (John 7:10). People were already plotting against Him (Keme...

the "restored kingdom of David" (Hahn 28). Matthews Gospel perfectly typifies what Augustine meant when he commented that the "N...

under them split asunder; and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the men that belonge...

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

A devout person will say that he or she "sees" "God in all things" (Hodges 101). This person is referring to an act of "intuitive ...

be very difficult because it had armor-like scales that were so close they did not even let in air. The mystery may be solved. A f...

wife was sexually involved with other men after they married (Smith, 2001). God demonstrates to Hosea the love He has for His peo...

John was familiar with Jewish ideas regarding the Messiah. He incorporated those ideas into his Gospel. He gently brings about the...